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Have some fun sorting out short vowels in this animal-filled lesson!

animal vowels

Animal Vowels

From skyscrapers to ants, comparing sizes with your class can be endlessly fun! This lesson will help your students compare short and tall sizes.

comparing tall and short

Comparing Tall and Short

Help your class understand what makes AEIO and U so special with this lesson that helps them differentiate between vowels and consonants.

vowel or consonant

Vowel or Consonant?

Who knew that sight words could be so handy? This super simple reading lesson is perfect for students who love arts and crafts. It combines a short project with fun sight word memorization activities.

handy sight words

Handy Sight Words

What happens when you put two words together? Help your kindergarten students understand the concept of compound words using this ocean-themed lesson.

reading puzzling words

Reading Puzzling Words

Spell and say those words with an A! Students will become familiar with common A sight words. It all starts with a fun “sight word hunt” around the classroom to introduce the lesson and ends with a word game that incorporates movement!

spell and say words with a

Spell and Say Words with A

Your students will deepen their understanding and build their vocabulary through reading nonfiction texts and identifying unknown words.

new words new ideas reading nonfiction

New Words, New Ideas: Reading Nonfiction

This lesson will have your students learn to compare and contrast using both a classic fairy tale and a fractured versions of a fairy tale. 

comparing and contrasting short stories

Comparing and Contrasting Short Stories

By fourth grade, most students are familiar with story elements such as setting, characters, and plot. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the elements in two stories with similar themes.

compare and contrast short stories

Compare and Contrast Short Stories

Students will read a short fictional story and discuss why the author included certain details and words. Use this lesson to help your students navigate parts of fictional text to determine the author's purpose!  

examining authors purpose in a fictional text

Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text

Pop! Pop! Pop! Blending is fun when it includes balloons! In this lesson filled with balloons, students will learn how to substitute letters to create new words that are in the -op word family. 

pop pop pop words in the op family

Pop! Pop! Pop! Words in the -Op Family

Practice making new words with your students as they learn about words in the -and word family.

all in a word family

All in a Word Family

Playing make-believe and telling stories are favorite childhood pastimes. Thus, no matter their reading level, students will love the opportunity to “read” to others and explore pictures as they take a walk through books.  

reading without words

Reading Without Words

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson. 

story mapping group work

Story Mapping Group Work

Give your students practice with inferences using short fictional texts before asking them to apply the skill to a longer text of their choice.

inferences in fictional texts

Inferences in Fictional Texts

Your students will “eat up” this salad of sight words! In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing words that are tricky to spell.

sight word salad

Sight Word Salad

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

using context clues to understand word meanings

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

Build words with this fun lesson for emergent readers. Using beads and pipe cleaners, your students will enjoy working with manipulatives to create three- and four-letter words!

read with beads

Read with Beads

When students read nonfiction texts, they will need to make inferences using text features and quotes as evidence. Support your students using short texts as practice before diving into more complex materials like textbooks.

making inferences in nonfiction texts

Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts

It's time-telling time with this fun lesson featuring Trudy Harris' 'The Clock Struck One.' Students will learning about time with a short story and hands-on practice with analog clocks.

the clock struck what

The Clock Struck What?

Use a short story that can be told entirely in idioms and students will get the picture! Students match story strip text to idioms in this interactive exercise that includes a matching worksheet assessment. 

get the picture take a shot at idioms

Get the Picture? Take a Shot at Idioms

Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.

in search of the main idea

In Search of the Main Idea

Students will learn how to identify story elements and create a short and sweet summary. They will fill out a graphic organizer and solidify their understanding by creating illustrations to show major plot points that they find themselves!

traditional literature story mapping

Traditional Literature: Story Mapping

Students will use the classroom word wall to read and spell tricky sight words.

wowza word walls

Wowza Word Walls!

Celebrate your students’ sight word success with a sight word celebration lesson! Customizable for use with any sight words, this lesson can be implemented after teaching a group of sight words or at the end of the year.

a sight word celebration

A Sight Word Celebration!

When reading, we all encounter unknown words at times. But how do we figure them out? In this lesson, students learn how to become a “human dictionary” by using a variety of strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words. 


human dictionary

Human Dictionary

By analzying picture books, students will make connections between the text and the illustrations of a story. They will compare and contrast the text and the illustrations and reflect upon how they impact their comprehension of a text.

a picture is worth a thousand words connecting text and illustrations

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Connecting Text and Illustrations

Have students “cook” the right blends to make a fantastic word dish with beginning, middle, and ending letter sounds. In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing common CVC words.

cooking up blends

Cooking Up Blends

Read and roll! This interactive game can be used as an engaging activity or an assessment tool that allows you to easily monitor your students’ ability to blend phonemes together to create words.

letter roll reading blending sounds

Letter Roll Reading: Blending Sounds

Ready, set, bingo! Students will use a fun, fast-paced game of word bingo to practice reading and spelling grade-level sight words.

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